OR/MS Today, June 2008

Forecasting Software Survey
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Product Data Entry Import
Is there a maximum number of observations in time-series? How many? Reads Excel files If Not, What Modifications Must be Made? Additional Import File Formats Available?
@RISK 5.0     y    
AUTOBOX y 10,000 y   text
B34S ProSeries Econometric System         CSV, SAS, SCA, Matlab, RATS, TSD, Citibase
Crystal Ball y Limited only by maximum number in Excel y   Any file format supported by Excel
Forecast Pro Unlimited     y   text files, xml, relational databases via ODBC
Forecast Pro XE     y   text files, relational databases via ODBC
Forecast Pro XE     y   text files, relational databases via ODBC
ForecastX Wizard y Excel's upper limit y    
ForecastX Wizard Premium Edition   Excel's upper limit y    
iData     y   ascii, xml, custom
Minitab 15 Statistical Software       save as XLS XML, TXT, CSV, DAT, MDB, WQ1, DBF
OpenForecast       Must be saved as a CSV file, or exposed via JDBC ResultSet JDBC ResultSets
PEERForecaster y 1000 y    
PSI Planner for Windows y 60 y   ASCII, ODBC, HTML
RoadMap Global Planning Solution       Data transformation into MS-Access or SQL-Server Oracle
RoadMap in a Box       Data transformation into SQL Server 2005 Oracle
SAS Forecast Server     y   Can import virtually any file format
SCA Statistical System     y   Access, Borland, CSV, TXT, SCA
SmartForecasts     y   Any text file
Smoothie y 156 y   Database (various)
STATGRAPHICS Centurion XV     y   XML, CSV, TXT
STATGRAPHICS Mobile         Syncs with STATGRAPHICS Centurion files
STATGRAPHICS Online         XML
SYSTAT v12     y   SPSS, SAS, Minitab, S-Plus, Statistica, JMP, ASCII, dBase, Lotus
TimeTrends Forecasting System y 1040 historical / 520 forecast y   Access, Excel, dBASE, HTML, Lotus 1-2-3, Paradox, TXT (CSV, TAB, ASCII), ODBC
Vanguard System     y   ODBC, SOAP/Web Services, XML, TXT

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